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Phil Wainewright put up a very thought provoking post the other day, speculating if Zoho could outgrow Salesforce.com. A worthwhile read, the stand out bit being his summation; A disruptive model? Just as Salesforce.com’s CEO Marc Benioff dismisses conventional…

A guest post from the unreasonablemen.net A year or so ago I went to a Salesforce.com event in which they trotted out a Google Apps exec to support their no software message. The guy (I forget his name) was delayed…

A guest post from the unreasonablemen.net A couple of reasons. Firstly unlike Firefox and Safari and of course the corporate supported IE, it doesn’t seem to get past the companies proxy server. Second, and most importantly to me I’m not…

A guest post from the unreasonablemen.net I can’t help but comment on the hugely underwhelming version 2 of the digital strategy. As reported in the dominion post, the minster believes we are at no risk of having “inspiration fatigue”.…

A guest post from unreasonablemen.net I think they’ve got a lot to answer for. IT is such a hype driven industry and its all because of the marketers hyperbole. Massively over used terms like ‘revolutionary’, ‘next generation’ and ‘2.0’…

I’ve written before about the fact that SaaS companies need to think a lot more about the infrastructure that brings their customers to them – that infrastructure (mainly) being the Internet. One of the things that I hadn’t thought…

A guest post from the unreasonablemen.net Vodafone NZ’s iPhone pricing has become so topical we even made some US news wires…well done but I’m sorry you only have yourselves to blame… I told a couple of you repeatedly that…

A guest post from the Unreasonablemen.net News out today that Microsoft is going to offer to sell some versions of its desktop software on a subscription basis. This will be done in typical MS fashion under a cool product…

A guest post from the unreasonablemen.net There’s a growing opinion that the answer to that is no. Om Malik got stuck into Gmail last week. How is one supposed to run a business on such an unreliable platform? The…

A guest post from the Unreasonablemen.net This might be obvious but I see it time and time again. Old world companies are so fixated on risk that they are going nowhere. Old world companies behaviour can be characterised by…